Originally posted on Nikki McDonagh – author and photographer: ? I am very honoured to be nominated for the Versatile Blogger Award. Many thanks to Karen Einsel for nominating me. You can check out her wonderful post here: http://karensdifferentcorners.wordpress.com/ So, here are the rules for the Versatile Blogger Award – kindly given to me by…

Originally posted on Writing Is Hard Work: It seems that the more current fiction I read these days the more dialogue I am seeing in the text.  As a matter of fact, most novels written today are heavy on the dialogue and lighter on the long paragraphs of detailed description. Dialogue is a tool used…

Originally posted on Elder Park Book Reviews: Season to taste by Natalie Young “Always let the meat rest under foil for at least ten minutes before carving… Meet Lizzie Prain. Ordinary housewife. Fifty-something. Lives in a cottage in the woods, with her dog Rita. Likes cooking, avoids the neighbours. Runs a little business making cakes.…

Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: This morning we woke to a beautiful sky. In my six o’clock state I barely registered it before going back to sleep, but husband was inspired enough to take a pic. Not brilliant because it’s a rubbish camera, but the sky really was hazy like that, and the moon…

Originally posted on Sarah Potter Writes: ~ Pink extroversion ~ Multitude of peonies shout for attention. ?

Originally posted on jennylloydwriter: It was a funny old week. My travels around the Llyn Peninsula began near Black Rock sands and the most extortionately priced campsite I’ve yet encountered. Twenty-five pounds per night is the charge for the dubious pleasure of being able to park your outfit on a potholed field backing onto the…

Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: I got there first to see you arrive Not wanting to show you my thoughts’ disarray. After all of this time you replied to my mails First sign of regret since you went away. I sat at the back and watched as you searched Your familiar poise, the set…

Originally posted on Elyse Salpeter: Like to Read? Join a virtual book club. One of the most amazing things to come out of this explosion of social media is the friendships that you can make. We teach our children that you have to be careful on the internet. That these “friends” they meet on?chat, gaming…

Originally posted on The Bingergread Cottage: I did something I regret yesterday. I was a bit over-stern with a lad in our village (let’s call him Marc) It concerned manners on which I’m rather heavy-handed. Trouble is, this guy, looking like most other sixteen year olds, has a mental age of about seven. He’d turned…

Originally posted on Nikki McDonagh – author and photographer: ? I am very honoured to be nominated for the Versatile Blogger Award. Many thanks to Karen Einsel for nominating me. You can check out her wonderful post here: http://karensdifferentcorners.wordpress.com/ So, here are the rules for the Versatile Blogger Award – kindly given to me by…

Originally posted on Writing Is Hard Work: It seems that the more current fiction I read these days the more dialogue I am seeing in the text.  As a matter of fact, most novels written today are heavy on the dialogue and lighter on the long paragraphs of detailed description. Dialogue is a tool used…

Originally posted on Elder Park Book Reviews: Season to taste by Natalie Young “Always let the meat rest under foil for at least ten minutes before carving… Meet Lizzie Prain. Ordinary housewife. Fifty-something. Lives in a cottage in the woods, with her dog Rita. Likes cooking, avoids the neighbours. Runs a little business making cakes.…

Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: This morning we woke to a beautiful sky. In my six o’clock state I barely registered it before going back to sleep, but husband was inspired enough to take a pic. Not brilliant because it’s a rubbish camera, but the sky really was hazy like that, and the moon…

Originally posted on Sarah Potter Writes: ~ Pink extroversion ~ Multitude of peonies shout for attention. ?

Originally posted on jennylloydwriter: It was a funny old week. My travels around the Llyn Peninsula began near Black Rock sands and the most extortionately priced campsite I’ve yet encountered. Twenty-five pounds per night is the charge for the dubious pleasure of being able to park your outfit on a potholed field backing onto the…

Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: I got there first to see you arrive Not wanting to show you my thoughts’ disarray. After all of this time you replied to my mails First sign of regret since you went away. I sat at the back and watched as you searched Your familiar poise, the set…

Originally posted on Elyse Salpeter: Like to Read? Join a virtual book club. One of the most amazing things to come out of this explosion of social media is the friendships that you can make. We teach our children that you have to be careful on the internet. That these “friends” they meet on?chat, gaming…

Originally posted on The Bingergread Cottage: I did something I regret yesterday. I was a bit over-stern with a lad in our village (let’s call him Marc) It concerned manners on which I’m rather heavy-handed. Trouble is, this guy, looking like most other sixteen year olds, has a mental age of about seven. He’d turned…